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For anyone into using their SQL skills creatively, and getting out of the boring SQL-coding daily routine … here is a puzzle that is both entertaining and challenging, and with a real prize for the winner! Official abstract: “In this challenge (see page 25), the Wicked Witch of the...Read more

Today the new OakTable web site, www.oaktable.net, has been published: many thanks to Kurt Van Meerbeeck (that I’m told worked the most on the site), James Morle and Marco Gralike! I really like (besides the light and modern look) the aggregator of the OakTable members’ blogs –...Read more

While attending the 11gR2 launch event in Milan last Thursday, I had the distinguished opportunity (invited, as a blogger, by the Oracle team that was organizing the event) to meet Mark Townsend and exchange a few words about the new features of 11gR2 and the Oracle database in general as well. ...Read more

Just a short note to tell my friends that I have been bestowed the August Order of the Wooden Pretzel, that is, that I won the NoCOUG’s “First international SQL challenge” with this solution. I’m especially happy to see that, after (way too) many years since graduation, I...Read more